->''Very few men are ever going to give someone as fragile-looking as you her due in anything.''-->--'''Darinby''' to Jame

->''Have I got a sign on my back that says, 'Kick me, I'm Highborn?'''-->--'''Jame''', to Bane

->'''Jame:''' ''"M'lady, you'd only be disappointed. Contrary to popular opinion, I am '''not''' a boy."''->'''Melissand:''' ''"My darling goose, whoever said you were?"''

->''At that point, it didn't matter to Jame if this was a god, a hallucination, or the local form of street sanitation; she was out of the alley the way she had come before the creature had turned the far corner.''

->''Overhead, an enormous, grotesque creature scuttled along the walls, leaving a phosphorescent trail and, at intervals, triumphant proclamations in schoolboy Kessic that "Edolph the Bat-Wing was here... and here... and here."''